haunted castles the complete gothic stories

'Russell links postpulp literature and the Grand Guignol tradition with the modern sensibilities of America in the 1960s. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell’s Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.

Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell’s masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of “Sardonicus,” “Sanguinarius,” and “Sagittarius.” The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy) the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile.

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro

Haunted castles the complete gothic stories